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"... an important contribution to environmental philosophy.... includes
provocative discussions of institutional and systemic violence, indigenous
resistance to 'development,' the land ethic, deep ecology, ecofeminism, women's
ecological knowledge, Jeffersonian agrarian republicanism, Berry's ideas about
'principled engagement in community,' wilderness advocacy, and the need for an
attachment to place." -- Choice

"[T]his is a very important book,
raising serious questions for development theorists and environmentalists alike." --
Boston Book Review

When Indian centenarian Chinnagounder asked
Deane Curtin about his interest in traditional medicine, especially since he wasn't
working for a drug company looking to patent a new discovery, Curtin wondered
whether it was possible for the industrialized world to interact with native
cultures for reasons other than to exploit them, develop them, and eradicate their
traditional practices. The answer, according to Curtin, defines the ethical
character of what we typically call 'progress.' Despite the familiar assertion that
we live in a global village, cross-cultural environmental and social conflicts are
often marked by failures of communication due to deeply divergent assumptions.
Curtin articulates a response to Chinnagounder's challenge in terms of a new,
distinctly postcolonial, environmental ethic.